The next day arrived and my brother got dropped off at a friends house for Pre's whilst i drove to work, i was very bummed. I work at eziway supermarket in swanbourne which is one of the last spots to buy alcohol consealing containers before you hit the showgrounds and big day out so naturally people dressed in minimal clothing along with my friends came in fully amped to go to BDO, this multiplied my depression by a million.
I had accidently let slip the night before that I was considering jumping the fence to my parents, they were not at all excited, in fact they started saying if i got caught i would get arrested and have a criminal record, jeopordising all future job opportunitys and i would end up a bum. However as 12 o'clock rolled around the idea of jumping became more and more appealing and i rang my friend Mr Will Flentri to see if he was still jumping. He said he was and that apparently it was really really easy to get in, that sealed it, i was going to jump.
I got off work at 1:30 instead of 2 and drove down to the showgrounds and parked nearby, will said to call him half an hour later so i started patrolling the outside looking for weak spots to jump. What confronted me was miles and miles of razor wire and security gaurds positioned every 50 meters along the fence, all with radios and some on towers. I was bummed yet again. i Ran into a friend from school who asked if i was jumoing, i said i dunno im scouting but it looks pretty hard, he said come with us we have cardboard to cover the razor wire. I said OK! so we looked around but couldnt find a spot. eventually two of the guys with us decided to jump over a razor wire free wall just near the second entrance. I thought this was a very un-feasible option as u did not know what was on the other side. however he texted us to say he got in pretty easy, although by this stage a huge maori security gaurd had come over and told us to get the fuck away from the wall...devo. i looked around a bit more with Mitch and found one other spot that could be fease but looked pretty hard.
I tried calling Will but my phone wasnt working but luckily i found him near that same wall this time without security. A large group of people around the area saw a truck trying to enter the gate and so it was decided we would rush in with the reuck whilst some tried to climb into the back of it to no avail. the gaurds at the gate werent stupid and didnt let the truck in until we all left. slowly a group started forming at the wall where the 2 guys got in before and without anywarning a huge mass of people started jumping over it as if they were escaping a terrorist attack, i saw will scrambling up the wall so naturally i followed after him, i was now on a very precarious and small tin roof with 20 other people. Worrying this would soon collapse i followed the rest of them and jumped off its 10 foot height to the ground below. with adrenalin pumping we sprinted 10 meters to a nearby temporary fence and scrambled over to see...
A CROWD!!! no security gaurds, no cops and no dog squads which i later realised were around. I was in and very very very very stoked. I found Will and celebrated with a number of Hi-5's. Another plus was that u only got wrist bands if u were over 18 so it was very easy to blend into the crowd. We split up to find friends and i eventually found My brothers friends and then my friends Courtney and Georgia at Passion Pit which was very sweaty but extremely sick. We then went to Dizzee Rascal who was extremely shit except for the last 3 songs (including "Holiday" and "Bonkers") which went off in the 20,000+ crowd!!!
after that we went to Calvin Harris at the Boiler Room, this also went off becuase he, unlike Dizzee, played a lot of good songs throughout his set and had a lot of energy. straight after Calvin Was Simian Mobile Disco who according to my brother were sick but we left after i found a ticket on the floor to see if i could get into the bar areas.
After making our way to the bar the gaurd told me to go to the main entrance to get a wristband but it was very unlikely. we trecked through the very thick crowd to get to the entrance on the other side of the grounds only to be told that it was too late to get a wrist band...bummer. Instead i bought an alcohol free Coca-Cola which boosted my sugar and stokage levels significantly. We then waited for about half an hour whilst Georgia was in the line for a toilet, this was good because it allowed me to watch some of Grinspoon's set, they were pretty good.
We then decided that ladyhawke was a good option as we had time to kill before Groove Armada, however she was like dizzee and decided to play her good songs at the end of her set which we could not hang around for so instead we got back to the boiler room early for Groove Armada. they came on and for an hour and a half played some pretty amazing music including "Superstylin" (which went off) to close their set.
By this stage (11 at night) my legs were almost completly dead from standing up since 10 o'clock that morning. We slowly made our way with the crowd back out and drove home. It was a pretty sick day even though i didnt have a drop of alcohol.
Here are some photographs to top off my huge essay...
Passion Pit
Dizzee Rascal showing under half the crowd.
That guy in yellow shirt on stage was the DJ for Dizzee, he was absolutly terrible, all he did was press play on the next song then pretend to scratch whilst dancing like a fool for the rest of the song, he did no mixing at all and u could see his hand about 10cm above the decks pretending to scratch, I wanted to shoot him.
I was bored of Dizzee Rascal when i saw this shirt.
The crowd at Calvin Harris
Mr Calvin Harris himself.
This was the last fence we had to jump to get in, it was pretty easy
Ladyhawk
Groove Armada
Superstylin!
This is Calvin Harris doing "The Girls" but it is only a short part of it and quite distorted.
This is a sick DJ called Sasha who had a ridiculously good lights and lazer show.
This is Groove Armada doing one of their more chilled out songs, he was really good at playing the trombone.
MUSIC:
due to Big Day Out the following music is now sick:
"Superstlyin" by Groove Armada: I have liked this song for a while, but now i am back into it again. It's pretty much the most famous song by Groove.
"Get Down" by Groove Armada: This is a newer song by Groove Armada which i have heard on Triple J before, they performed it really well live except it was the guy who does superstylin singing, he did it really well.
"Little Secrets" by Passion Pit: Again i had heard this song before on Triple J but didnt know who it was by, everyone was loving it live.
"Audacity of Huge" by Simian Mobile Disco: I have heard this song at clubs and parties before but never knew it was by these guys, it is ridiculously good and the first song they played in their set.
"Cruel Intentions" by Simian Mobile Disco: a bit of a different sound for them but still works just as well as their other songs, unfortunatly i missed this one.
